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Transfer of old photos from iPhone (now on PC) back to iPhone

Hi,

Several years ago I manually backed up iPhone photos to PC and then erased them from the iPhone.

Now I want to transfer them back to my iPhone/iCloud library.

How can I do that? There does not seem to be an option to add files to iCloud directly and I can't copy the files manually from my PC to my iPhone folders..


Any advise?

Thanks!

iPhone 12 Pro, iOS 14

Posted on Aug 2, 2021 1:49 PM

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Posted on Aug 2, 2021 1:52 PM

You can upload photos into iCloud at iCloud.com/photos.


You can sync the photos to your phone directly using iTunes on your PC. https://support.apple.com/guide/itunes/sync-photos-itns3102/windows


You can download iCloud for Windows, and sync the photos to your device using iCloud. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201391

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Aug 2, 2021 1:52 PM in response to Lonner82

You can upload photos into iCloud at iCloud.com/photos.


You can sync the photos to your phone directly using iTunes on your PC. https://support.apple.com/guide/itunes/sync-photos-itns3102/windows


You can download iCloud for Windows, and sync the photos to your device using iCloud. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201391

Aug 3, 2021 12:02 AM in response to muguy

Thank you!


iCloud upload fails every time saying something about "wrong dimensions of the files" (translated from local language but it does not say wrong file format).


Both options to sync works poorly for files that are in various PC folders unfortunatley as Apple dosn't use folders the same way a PC does :(


Any other suggestions?

Transfer of old photos from iPhone (now on PC) back to iPhone

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